WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible guys. And if you're just 2 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.280 tuning in recently, just know that we are showing a 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.120 little bit of reruns for a few months, and then 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.839 we'll be back bigger and better than ever on August 5 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.519 thirty first, because behind the scenes, we're taking a hiatus 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.720 to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.359 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.559 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.039 Hey, Chris, I'm excited about today's episode because we're talking 12 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:32.359 about sin and apparently you could just keep on sinning, 13 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:34.600 just keep keep on sinning, do whatever you want, like 14 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:35.719 live it up right. 15 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:40.640 Wow. Nope, Nope, that's what Paul says. Today. Paul says nope. 16 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.119 So today he is Kyle. I am Chris, And because 17 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.520 Jeff is still in India, that's right. We are the 18 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.799 Bible guys. 19 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.320 Jeff. We miss you, Yes, we certainly do. 20 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.959 Hey, today, we are actually going to be hosting a 21 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.319 segment that is a sort of you know, classic It's 22 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:11.560 what's what I'm looking for. It's a spinoff spinoff. 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.319 Yes, because of classic Chris that we're doing a spin off. 24 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.120 Yet, well, listen, I'm old enough to know what the 25 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.879 old spinoffs were like. Did you know that Happy Days 26 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:20.879 had three spinoffs? 27 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:22.439 Wow? You know, I didn't know? 28 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.439 Idea and la Vernon, Shirley. Have you ever heard of Vernon? 29 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:26.000 That was a spinoff from Happy Days? 30 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:26.359 For really? 31 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.840 Yes? And then there was an episode there's a thing 32 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.879 called Jonie Loves Chatzi. 33 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.120 I've heard the saying before, but I had no idea. 34 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.159 Yeah, and it lasted like one season, and then there 35 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.840 was a third one. Oh it was Morgan Mindy. 36 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:41.480 Yeah, answer real quick, because this is totally unrelated. What's 37 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:43.000 your favorite recent spinoff? 38 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:43.200 You have? 39 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.439 Any recent spinoff? Movie, spinoff shows? 40 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:52.079 H recent spin offs? Holy Christmas? Recent spinoffs. I'm sure 41 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:53.640 there's one that exists. 42 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.120 Only when I well know, don't you like the eighteen 43 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:56.959 eighty three and all that kind of stuff? 44 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:57.200 Or no? 45 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.640 Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah that was a considered spin. 46 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.920 Was massive spin off. It was a prequel. Okay, but 47 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.760 but but I mean I guess it could be called 48 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:10.199 a spin off. Yeah yeah, actually no, I don't. I 49 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.840 don't think they qualifies, no, because it really was it's 50 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:16.800 different today than it was back then. Back then, they 51 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.520 would take just a character and they would shut down 52 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.400 that whole storyline and they would sort of build a new, 53 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:24.960 a whole new thing based on one character. 54 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:26.919 You know, I've not seen it, but I've heard that 55 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.400 the Better Call Saul, which is a spin. 56 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.120 That is a spin was good. That was great. I 57 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.759 loved it. I love Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul 58 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.360 was a great spinoff. I was thinking of Fraser. 59 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:40.560 Okay, Fraser. 60 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.039 Fraser was a spinoff from Cheers in the eighties. Yes, 61 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:43.599 I don't. 62 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.039 Well, Fraser's very popular as well. I didn't realize it 63 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:46.479 was spin off. 64 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.360 Well, yeah, it was a spinoff from Cheers. Is awesome, 65 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:52.080 So okay, Well, anyway, so here's the spinoff. Instead of 66 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.599 what Chris What made Chris mad this week, We're going 67 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:56.400 to ask what made Kyle happy this week? 68 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:59.120 What made me happy this week? A lot of things. 69 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.520 But you know something that's a little odd that people 70 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:04.280 may not know. I just picked up a new hobby 71 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.879 last week, literally last week. But over the past month 72 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.400 or so, my wife and I have been really taking Sabbath, 73 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.919 taking a Sabbath day seriously as we should as Christians. 74 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:12.120 Right. 75 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.439 It's not aways easy, you know, to to really focus 76 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:15.919 on that, but we really try to take our Sabbath 77 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:18.759 seriously and try to rest from working and rest from 78 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:19.759 technology that sort of thing. 79 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.400 And so explain, explain the concept of what what do 80 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.800 you mean when you say the word sabbath. 81 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.240 So Sabbath, you know, it's part of a commandment, something 82 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.000 Jesus even honored. But the idea of taking one out 83 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:30.719 of the seven days a week and just taking a 84 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.840 time just to I sent you. I mean, it looks 85 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:34.719 different for a lot of people, but for us, it's 86 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:37.520 this time of no work. It's a time of kind 87 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.960 of resting in God's presence and whatever that looks like. 88 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.560 So some people do, you know, maybe a spiritual retreat 89 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:44.840 or get away or they're do a bobber reading thing 90 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.639 or you know, no devices, whatever it may be. But 91 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:49.639 and then a lot of people sometimes in the sabbath 92 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:51.400 will may be fast and there's a lot of spiritual 93 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:53.840 implications for fasting and that sort of thing. So for us, 94 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.000 it's just you know, a twenty four hour span where 95 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.840 we you know, try to refrain from working, right and 96 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.240 focus on God and just enjoy his goodness. But Anyways, 97 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:04.039 uh So, one of the things I did because we're 98 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.120 trying to go technology free is last week my wife 99 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.680 bought me a Sudoku book, and it makes me feel 100 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.599 like a boomer playing sudoku. But it's funny because now 101 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:14.439 I'm like hooked on Sudoku. Do you know, do you 102 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:15.599 ever play Sudoku or any. 103 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.160 Of the crosswords or any of those types of things? 104 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:17.680 Not really? 105 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.920 Okay, So Sudoku, it's just basically it's similar to a 106 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.639 crossword puzzle and those types of things. But something about it, 107 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.480 even though maybe I'm working a little bit, because it 108 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.000 feels like I'm working my brain a little bit, I'm 109 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.360 doing it, but something about it just feels nice to 110 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.959 sit there with an actual book, like a physical book 111 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.720 and a pencil and write things, sound things down. And 112 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.759 so if you're somebody who's into Sudoku, crossword, any of 113 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.399 those types of things, you know, message me let me know, 114 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:41.079 or if you see me at church or see me around, 115 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.240 let me know. I would like to I do wordle. 116 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:43.839 You do wordle? 117 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:44.040 Okay? 118 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:44.279 Yeah? 119 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.079 Yeah, yeah, I on your phone though, yeah on the phone, 120 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:46.639 yeah yeah. 121 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.199 But it's kind of nice for you to just like, 122 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.279 for a minute, just like work your brain a little 123 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.519 bit and it's it's different. Yeah. Sure, So this is 124 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.959 the sudoku and again not doing it digitally, just doing 125 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:56.600 it with the book. And so that that's made me happy. 126 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:58.399 I discovered a new hobby that I enjoy. That thing 127 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.240 is going to bring me peace for the next stuck 128 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:00.560 a couple of. 129 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.439 Weeks in these weeks until it doesn't exactly. That's really funny. Yeah. 130 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:05.720 Yeah. 131 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:07.800 So by the way, just since we opened the can 132 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.040 of worms, you know, so remember the Sabbath day and 133 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:13.600 keep it holy was a very specific command given to 134 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.279 a specific group of people. And there were a lot, 135 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.199 I mean, just hundreds of commands that were actually given 136 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.879 very very specifically, you know, to the children of Israel, 137 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:27.279 and I had to do with them specifically, you know, 138 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.240 like you know, we would never try to, you know, 139 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.319 go collect manna. Right, There's so many things that were 140 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.759 just given to them as commands for their situation. And 141 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.680 so the principle of the Sabbath is what we think 142 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.480 is important because I believe that even though that our 143 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.800 days and our rituals and everything else, it doesn't fall 144 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.560 into the you know, the Hebrews. However, the principle of 145 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.000 remembering a Sabbath day and keeping it holy was if 146 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.360 you read all the way through the Old Testament describes 147 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.920 how the purpose is to rest, yes right, and to 148 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.160 renew and everything else. And so, by the way, that's 149 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.000 the reason why Seventh day Adventists would say that the 150 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.839 true Sabbath is on Saturday, like that's a big point 151 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:12.199 of contention for them, and whereas like Christianity would say, well, 152 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.319 it doesn't matter the day, But actually we celebrated on 153 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.399 Sunday for one reason, because Jesus rose again on Sunday, 154 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.759 So our choice of Sabbath went towards Sunday. But the 155 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:28.120 principle of practicing a sabbath for you and me, it 156 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:29.680 is hard to do on Sunday because we work so 157 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:30.319 hard on Sunday. 158 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.160 Absolutely, So you got to find some other times, right, right. 159 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.199 Because when you decided to go into full time vacational ministry, 160 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.199 then that all of a sudden becomes a time where 161 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.120 you're not obeying a sabbath, you're really working hard, you know, 162 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:44.920 for honestly other people's sabbath. 163 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.040 You don't know something crazy about you mentioned a Seventh 164 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:51.040 day Adventist. So it's a denomination that takes that Sabbath 165 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.759 very seriously, like it's religiously right. Maybe sure to be extreme, 166 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.120 it's very very serious. But the crazy thing is there 167 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.000 studies a show that when you look at the average 168 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.800 life span of a human an American, right, and you 169 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.839 compare that to somebody who has been practicing in that 170 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.560 you know, that denomination and really takes that seriously the Sabbath. 171 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.240 They say that Seventh day Adventists live on average of 172 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.000 seven years more than the average person. And if you 173 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.879 do seven years and if you do the math on 174 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.040 the amount of days that essentially like off days that 175 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.920 they take, that it works out to be like that 176 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.319 that essentially is like almost like it's giving them more 177 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.040 life in that wild that there's like studies that show 178 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.759 that that they actually live seven years longer. 179 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.079 So the message is if you want to live long longer, 180 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:32.000 just convert, take. 181 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:36.439 A day off, just convert. Yeah, I was gonna say, 182 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:37.399 practice sabbath. 183 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.680 Yeah, it's the principle of stress free. Isn't that funny? Huh? 184 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.279 How stressed it was meant for us. 185 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:44.759 That's the thing is people try to use it as 186 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.000 a you know, obviously like a religion or rule or 187 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:48.519 whatever that sort of thing, but it was the Sabbath 188 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.399 was designed for us as something God blessed. I just 189 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.199 hard for us. I know for you you're the same way. 190 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.199 You're like a fast moving dude. It's very hard to 191 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:56.480 slow down. But it's very important. 192 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.720 So yeah, that's awesome, very good. So today we're talking 193 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:04.879 about Roman chapter six, verses one through twenty three, and 194 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:08.439 we're talking about sin's power being broken, and we're going 195 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:10.959 to read through the entire chapter and Paul is going 196 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.279 to just continue on with this idea of sin and 197 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:15.240 what it means for our lives. 198 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.120 That's right, Well, then should we keep on sinning so 199 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.120 that God can show us more and more of his 200 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.800 wonderful grace? Of course not or as Chris said earlier, Nope, 201 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.600 since we have died to sin, how can we continue 202 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.000 to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when 203 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.759 we were joined with Christ, Jesus and Baptism, we joined 204 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.360 him and his death. For we died and we were 205 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.440 buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was 206 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.559 raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, 207 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.759 now we also may live new lives since we have 208 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:45.840 been unified with Him and his death. We will also 209 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.080 be raised to life as he was. We know that 210 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.600 our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that 211 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.639 sin might lose its power in our lives. We're no 212 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.320 longer slaves of sin from we died with Christ. We 213 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.879 were set free from the power of sin. And since 214 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.799 we died with Christ, we know we will also live 215 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.039 with him. We are sure of this because Christ was 216 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.679 raised from the dead, and he will never die again. 217 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.840 Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, 218 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.600 he died once to break the power of sin. But 219 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.399 now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. 220 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:17.799 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to 221 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.039 the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. 222 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.919 Do not let sin control the way you live. Do 223 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.720 not give into sinful desires. Do not let any part 224 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.840 of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, 225 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.440 give yourselves completely to God. For you are dead, but 226 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.759 now you have new life. So use your whole body 227 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:37.600 as an instrument to do what is right for the 228 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.639 glory of God. Sin is no longer your master, for 229 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.279 you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, 230 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.320 you live under the freedom of God's grace. Well, then, 231 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.279 since god grace has set us free from the law, 232 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:53.039 does that mean we can go on sinning? Nope, nope, yep. 233 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.159 Don't you realize that you become the slave of whatever 234 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.720 you choose to obey. You can be a slave to sin, 235 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.559 which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, 236 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.159 which leads to righteous living. Thank God. Once you were 237 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.399 slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching 238 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.120 we have given you. Now you are free from your 239 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.960 slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous 240 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.600 living because of the weakness of your human nature. I 241 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.000 am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand 242 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:23.360 all this. I love how like blatantly puts that as 243 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.000 if you know. It's like you didn't get it. So 244 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.159 I'm just letting you know. I'm using this as an illustration. Previously, 245 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.799 you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which 246 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.639 led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves 247 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.919 to be slaves to righteous living so that you may 248 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.080 become holy. When you were slaves of sin, you were 249 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.320 free from the obligation to do right. And what was 250 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.639 the result. You are now ashamed of the things you 251 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.000 used to do, things that end in eternal doom. But 252 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.000 now you are free from the power of sin, and 253 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.399 you have become slaves of God. Now you do those 254 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.799 things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 255 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:58.759 For the wages of sin is death. But the free 256 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.799 gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Yeah, 257 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.879 that's another classic mentioned to be ready several times here 258 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.399 in this week. The Romans Road that that final one 259 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.480 for the wages of since death, there was a payment 260 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.120 for our mistakes. It was death. But the free gift 261 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:15.120 of God is eternal life. 262 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.759 Yeah. Yeah, And those of those people listening you don't 263 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.159 are not familiar with the term Romans Road. It's just 264 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.240 several verses out of Romans that were pieced together and 265 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.200 made popular by calling it. It's basically a road map 266 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.960 through the Book of Romans, and we're sort of skipping 267 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.600 around chronologically in the Book of Romans, and it basically 268 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.279 lays out salvation through the truths that Paul's laying out here. 269 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:44.240 So that's what that's what Kyle's refern to do. So anyway, 270 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.879 So yeah, so he starts out with the question should 271 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.320 we should we go on sinning? So that got me 272 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.559 show more of us of his wonderful grace. Of course not. 273 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.279 So it's so interesting, isn't it? Because he had just 274 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.720 spent the previous parts of the letter that Paul's writing 275 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.919 talking about how, hey, listen, obeying the law does not 276 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.759 make you righteous. Right, It wasn't that way with Abraham. 277 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.240 Listen that there were people who died before the law 278 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.360 was given, you know, from Adam all the way to Moses. 279 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.960 You know, Jesus Christ said that it's by faith. You know, 280 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.960 it's not by works, you know, all these different things. 281 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.159 So he's laying out, you know, that idea. But then 282 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.159 he goes back and says, Okay, he's sort of feeling 283 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.840 like what he's and he's about to get into actually 284 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.200 that the law does have its purpose and that actually 285 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:32.480 we should obey the law. We should strive to obey 286 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.679 the law. It's just that the law is not a 287 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:40.320 means of righteousness or right standing with God or salvation. 288 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.399 But it doesn't mean that the law is discarded, doesn't 289 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.799 mean the law is thrown out right. So that's why 290 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.399 he asked the question, you know, is the law useless. Now, 291 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.120 that's what he's asking. He's saying, like, does that mean 292 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:55.000 that God no longer cares about our righteous living, our commandments, 293 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:59.159 our obedience, you know, all the things that God wants 294 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:02.200 us to do. Shall we just continue to just do 295 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.480 what God doesn't want us to do because we have grace? 296 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.159 And then of course he says, of course. 297 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.120 Not right. And it makes me think too, the word 298 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.000 that a lot of times it's a theological word that 299 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.120 I don't it's not mentioned in this chapter, but a 300 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.480 lot of times people think of the word sanctification, which 301 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.639 is a theological term of this idea of becoming more 302 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.440 like Christ. And I think this chapter, the word sanctified 303 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.519 means to be set apart. Yeah, set apart. And so 304 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.519 these this chapter, and I think the next few chapters, 305 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.480 even in which we're going to continue out in the future, 306 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:30.320 talk about this idea of becoming more and more like Christ. 307 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.799 And this is this idea that as you get closer 308 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.799 to Him and you're set apart, you're becoming more and 309 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.759 more and more. And I think it's it's funny because 310 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:38.759 he's talking about the opposite for so many people, you know, 311 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.399 they may know the truth, but yet they're keep on sinning, 312 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:44.200 and their sins just keep on separating them. And he 313 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:47.039 even talks about the idea of you know, some people 314 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.039 that share like it. Talks later on the chapter the 315 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.159 idea of looking back and realizing you kind of threw 316 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:52.799 your life away, you made there's mistakes, and now you 317 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:54.480 look back, Man, I wish I would have done those things. 318 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:55.960 And he's saying, well, what if you would have just, 319 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.440 you know, quit sitting. What if you would have just 320 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.679 accepted that free gift and started living this holy, blameless, 321 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.559 sanctified life. So he's really talking about the importance of 322 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.799 that right setting himself apart well, I mean. 323 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:11.679 He's giving these the introducing the idea of baptism through 324 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:15.200 Jesus' death in the Resurrection is an entirely different way 325 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.759 to look at you being free from sin. And so 326 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.639 think about it. If you're living in the first century, 327 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.120 when you think about being free from sin, the only 328 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.519 thing that is ingrained in your mind, especially as a 329 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.919 Jewish boy, especially being taught all the scriptures, the only 330 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.120 thing is just the law. If you want to be 331 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.559 free from sin, obey, obey, obey, And what Paul is saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 332 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.440 the laws there, we don't want to keep sinning. But 333 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.440 instead of finding righteous through the law, just know this 334 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.159 that when Jesus died, that actually he freed you from 335 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.279 the power of sin, that actually you're no longer a 336 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:51.720 slave to sin. And by the way, where you thinking 337 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:56.679 of the song? Yeah, yeah, no longer slaves to. 338 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.480 Fear father something with the word father, isn't that. 339 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:03.600 Yeah, So anyway, but when he talks about that, I 340 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:08.120 love the word picture of baptism. So again, let's just 341 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.519 talk about baptism for a minute. Right, So we have 342 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.399 in our church baptism coming up in like ten days, right, 343 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:17.559 and we baptize what three hundred and sixty people, three 344 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.519 hundred and forty eight people. 345 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.080 Yeah, it was close to it was close to three 346 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.399 sixty five. And oh that's kind of We're like, it. 347 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.919 Was close to that just in twenty twenty two, which 348 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:28.200 is pretty pretty pretty awesome, really great, And so we're 349 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.879 having our very first baptism in twenty twenty three coming up. 350 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.679 And when we baptize at our church, we take somebody, 351 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.080 you know, and we and we help them go under 352 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.759 the water and then we don't hold them there. We 353 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.799 bring them back up right, and a lot of times 354 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.200 what I'll say is if I use extra words, is 355 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.320 I'll say buried in the likeness of Jesus death and 356 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.639 raised to walk in newness of life, or you know, 357 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.840 raised to walk in the resurrection of Christ. And Paul 358 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:57.240 is actually talking about the word picture here, which is 359 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.720 the reason why we do immerse by the way we immerse, 360 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.919 because as we believe that Jesus was immersed John the 361 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.039 baptized John the Baptist baptized Jesus, and it says that 362 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.960 he put him under the water, and then he straightway 363 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.200 he came up out of the water, and so we do. 364 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.360 And then and then also here Roman chapter six that 365 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.799 also in Corinthians, he talks about the idea of the 366 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:18.799 word picture. In order for Jesus to be buried under 367 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.639 the earth, he would have to be lowered into, in 368 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:26.480 this case a cave or a grave. Right, we see 369 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.919 it as six feet under right, and we go into 370 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:33.360 the earth. And then what happens in Jesus' case is 371 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.919 he rises up from the earth. And so he took 372 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.639 sin with him, he became our sin, and he died. 373 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.720 And then what happened was he rose from the grave 374 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.279 proving that he is power over sin. And so Paul 375 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.440 is saying that, Okay, the person you used to be, 376 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.960 the sinful person you used to be, your sin was 377 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.440 paid for, so you through baptism, when you went under 378 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:01.000 the water, you were actually attached to the sacrifice and 379 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.919 the payment that was made by Jesus Christ, and just 380 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:09.079 symbolically your sins went away, right and you were raised 381 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:10.359 to walk as a new person. 382 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:10.880 Yeah. 383 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:11.599 That awesome. 384 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.960 Yeah, that's verly cool. It's really cool. And even even 385 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:15.839 still with this, when I read something like this to 386 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:17.680 talk to this idea of should I just go on sinning? 387 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.920 And it's this idea that as we come to know 388 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.000 Jesus more, we understand the depths in which you went 389 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.839 to save us. Our only response should not to continue 390 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.240 on to just keep on sinning and accept his forgiveness. 391 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:31.680 But it's to see change heart. 392 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:31.880 Now. 393 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:33.160 I was thinking about this way. Think about it from 394 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.720 a parenting perspective. When kids are small, when you have 395 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:37.960 like a child and you have an infant, if you 396 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.240 can remember back to having an infant, right as a parent, 397 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.640 you have no relationship, like real relationship with that kid. 398 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.119 Obviously you're their parents, you're the father or you know 399 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.599 those listening to the mother. But so it's like high control, 400 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.599 no relationship because you control everything about that child, right, 401 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.240